Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to halve
Participle: halved
Gerund: halving
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | halve |
| you | halve |
| he;she;it | halves |
| we | halve |
| you | halve |
| they | halve |
Perfect
| I | have halved |
| you | have halved |
| he;she;it | has halved |
| we | have halved |
| you | have halved |
| they | have halved |
Past
| I | halved |
| you | halved |
| he;she;it | halved |
| we | halved |
| you | halved |
| they | halved |
Pluperfect
| I | had halved |
| you | had halved |
| he;she;it | had halved |
| we | had halved |
| you | had halved |
| they | had halved |
Future
| I | will halve |
| you | will halve |
| he;she;it | will halve |
| we | will halve |
| you | will halve |
| they | will halve |
Future Perfect
| I | will have halved |
| you | will have halved |
| he;she;it | will have halved |
| we | will have halved |
| you | will have halved |
| they | will have halved |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | halve |
| you | halve |
| he;she;it | halve |
| we | halve |
| you | halve |
| they | halve |
Perfect
| I | have halved |
| you | have halved |
| he;she;it | have halved |
| we | have halved |
| you | have halved |
| they | have halved |
Imperfect
| I | halved |
| you | halved |
| he;she;it | halved |
| we | halved |
| you | halved |
| they | halved |
Pluperfect
| I | had halved |
| you | had halved |
| he;she;it | had halved |
| we | had halved |
| you | had halved |
| they | had halved |
Conditional
Present
| I | would halve |
| you | would halve |
| he;she;it | would halve |
| we | would halve |
| you | would halve |
| they | would halve |
Perfect
| I | would have halved |
| you | would have halved |
| he;she;it | would have halved |
| we | would have halved |
| you | would have halved |
| they | would have halved |
Imperative
| you | halve |
| we | Let's halve |
| you | halve |
Verbs conjugated like 'halve'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'halve'
calve,
hale,
halse,
have,
helve,
salve,
valve,
bale,
calver,
carve,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. M.E.
halfen "to divide in halves," c.1300 (see half).
2. From Middle English halven, helven, from Old English hilfan, helfan, *hielfan (“to halve, divide in two”), from Proto-West Germanic *halbijan, from Proto-Germanic *halbijaną (“to halve”), from Proto-Germanic *halbaz (“half”).
3. Cognate with Middle Dutch halven (“to halve”), Middle High German halben, helben (“to halve”). Compare also West Frisian helte (“to halve”), Dutch halveren (“to halve”), German Low German halberen (“to halve”), German halbieren (“to halve”), Danish halvere (“to halve”), Swedish halvera (“to halve”). See: Middle High German '
halben', Dutch '
halveren', German, old spelling '
halbieren', Danish '
halvere', Swedish '
halvera'.
Sample Sentences
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These show that since 1946 the fatality rate in train and movement accidents combined has been halved, [...]. [1960 December, “Talking of Trains: B.R. safety in 1959”, in Trains Illustrated, page 708:]
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The difficulty of each puzzle would increase as the number of miners increased, which would keep production to one block of transactions roughly every 10 minutes. In addition, the size of each block bounty would halve every 210,000 blocks—first from 50 bitcoins to 25, then from 25 to 12.5, and so on. Around the year 2140, the currency would reach its preordained limit of 21 million bitcoins. [2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2025:]
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So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own. [1855, Matthew Arnold, Faded Leaves:]
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I, of course, had no difficulty in doing likewise, and we halved the hole; but the awkward fact remained that I must now gain every hole to win the match, for my opponent's score was "nine up," and there only remained ten holes to play. [1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:]
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All that counts is whether you won, lost, or halved the match. [2005, Bill Elliott, The Golf Bag Buddy: The Essential On-Course Reference, page 67:]